Store to play the Wii in Dublin

alexkrycek · 27-03-2007 8:08pm #1

Hi

Where I can test the Nintendo Wii in Dublin? All the stores have X360 and PS3 now, but Wii just video....

Sharkbte · 27-03-2007 9:32pm

Thing with having a wii in a shop is

1. Dangerous
2. Controllers can be easily robbed since there wireless
3. Theres not enough space in gameshops today to put a wii to move around in.

Would that answer? I say just ask a friend if he has one or something or wait till he.she gets one

evad_lhorg · 28-03-2007 12:57pm

oh and just so we all know. the wii pods youll see in shops arent actually real wiis. there is a dvd player hidden behind the telly in the frame of it. the machine you see is just there for show as is the light. it doesnt turn on or off.

Kurtosis · 28-03-2007 4:01pm

I know Gamestop on Henry St. used to have a real demo pod in the store, but you had to ask at the counter for the controller and soemone would supervise you.

As far as I remember, someone on here mentioned before that Smyths Jervis St. also had a working pod. Give them both a try.

*Tripper* · 28-03-2007 7:57pm

Think all these working pods are gone by now, but Smyths and Jervis Street did have one!

Attol · 28-03-2007 8:59pm

evad_lhorg wrote:

oh and just so we all know. the wii pods youll see in shops arent actually real wiis. there is a dvd player hidden behind the telly in the frame of it. the machine you see is just there for show as is the light. it doesnt turn on or off.

They do work. The only thing is there were safety issues so they needed special staff from some company to get people to sign waivers and watch you. They haven't been around for a while though so now they're just very big ads.

evad_lhorg · 28-03-2007 11:21pm

believe me they dont all work and they arent all real machines.

Kurtosis · 29-03-2007 11:59am

Yes, I'm afraid you're mistaken Attol, I'm not sure of the percentage, but some of the pods are shells containing DVD players. Trust me, I speak from experience.

dan_y · 29-03-2007 12:53pm

penguin88 wrote:

Yes, I'm afraid you're mistaken Attol, I'm not sure of the percentage, but some of the pods are shells containing DVD players. Trust me, I speak from experience.

you're wrong. I was one of the demonstrators for the wii launch before christmas. I was responsible for the pods in smyths on jervis street and gamestop on henry street. all of the pods are real - they just can't be used unless you're supervised by sampling staff - which is random, since obviously no one can afford to pay someone to play wii all day every day. at least one pod is supervised once a week.

don't lie because it's the internet.

Kurtosis · 29-03-2007 1:31pm

Well I worked in a smaller Gamestop store and we received a demo pod at the begining of February which was nothing but a DVD player packaged into a Wii case and didn't even come with any Wii remotes.

Maybe changes have come about since Christmas regarding them.

dan_y · 09-04-2007 10:00pm

it didn't come with wiimotes because the sampling staff bring them in.

Attol · 10-04-2007 12:30am

dan_y wrote:

it didn't come with wiimotes because the sampling staff bring them in.

Oh, we thought you just ran off with them! Heh. We wanted to play it after you left but couldn't.

Kurtosis · 10-04-2007 1:36am

Still doesn't change the fact that most are just DVD players :rolleyes: (Wii doesn't have DVD playing functionality so how would the demo trailer even play otherwise!) Thanks for the insight though.

Attol · 10-04-2007 10:31am

Even the real pods play DVDs. I'm not sure how but probably like someone said about a DVD player in the back. If you go to see any that were fully functional around Christmas they'll know have a video.

Retr0gamer · 10-04-2007 10:41am

Those Wii's aren't DVD players. Most are set up to play video demos of the games. The discs aren't really DVDs. They are disc's coded as a Wii game but just play the video demoes. The disc they use won't work in a normal DVD player.

brainiac · 10-04-2007 11:18am

They cant be real wiis as the blue light is always on which we all know can only happen when the system is turned OFF.

Attol · 10-04-2007 11:49am

If there's an update it stays on. There could be something on the disc to manipulate it into thinking there's an update? Or they could have been modded for the light to stay on as well.

Kurtosis · 10-04-2007 5:09pm

As I said above, I speak from experience and my experience is there is at least one Wii pod out there which is not an actual functioning Wii, only a shell containing a DVD player. This could be the exception, but there is one.

MrVestek · 11-04-2007 10:19pm

dan_y wrote:

you're wrong. I was one of the demonstrators for the wii launch before christmas. I was responsible for the pods in smyths on jervis street and gamestop on henry street. all of the pods are real - they just can't be used unless you're supervised by sampling staff - which is random, since obviously no one can afford to pay someone to play wii all day every day. at least one pod is supervised once a week.

don't lie because it's the internet.

Hey, you're the guy who convinced me to buy a Wii heh! I played Wii sports with you in Smyths just before Christmas, was on my break from work from Peats around the corner. I know ya probably won't remember but yeah I remember playing that Wii demo pod. It's been moved to a different location now and is just playing the video demos but they do definately work.

dan_y · 13-04-2007 1:09pm

penguin88 wrote:

As I said above, I speak from experience and my experience is there is at least one Wii pod out there which is not an actual functioning Wii, only a shell containing a DVD player. This could be the exception, but there is one.

or, Maybe, you don't want to be wrong. look, wii pods are Expensive. nintendo only sent a handful to Ireland, which even still is a compliment to us - since we are such a tiny part of their market segment. these things come direct from tokyo. they All work, and they all come with a built in playback function for product videos.

you're totally welcome achilles, though I shouldn't take the credit cause it might have been the other guy. you get bored of it yet?

and I'm sure you've all come to the conclusion that if anyone could make that nifty blue light stay on and attract our mothlike eyes, it'd be the guys who designed the thing...

Kurtosis · 13-04-2007 2:48pm

I apologise all powerful and all knowing Wii god for my audacious and foolhardy attempts to repeat what I was told. Please find it in your judgement not to strike me down for my stupidity and perhaps at some time far off in the future you may see it fit to forgive me for my actions against the greater good. Of all being, you know best.

(sorry, had to throw it in

)

cedomination · 13-04-2007 9:23pm

Is it just me or are all the wiis that are in stores absolutely filthy?
I was looking at the one in gamestop today and it had patches of grey stuff all over it and it looked horrible.

Kurtosis · 13-04-2007 11:53pm

It shows up very easily due to the glossy white finish on them. Though all the dirt comes off very easily by just wiping it with a dry cloth, so just no one getting around to cleaning it!

Attol · 15-04-2007 6:40pm

penguin88 wrote:

I apologise all powerful and all knowing Wii god for my audacious and foolhardy attempts to repeat what I was told. Please find it in your judgement not to strike me down for my stupidity and perhaps at some time far off in the future you may see it fit to forgive me for my actions against the greater good. Of all being, you know best.

(sorry, had to throw it in )

You appear to have quite the attitude problem tbh. You worked in a shop (for only a couple of weeks it seems) with no demonstrators so obviously haven't seen it played. Everyone got the same pod. Go in and ask if you won't believe anyone here. It just grates me when people are so rude and pretend they know everything. You've had someone from the company that supplied them tell you and you reply like that? I just think it's a tad unnecessary.

Store to play the Wii in Dublin

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